Quotations about Life

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"Momma always said, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.""
 -Forrest Gump,
in "Forrest Gump"
 
"All men die. Not all men truly live."
 -William Wallace,
Revolutionary leader in Scotland,
in "Braveheart"
 
"If a man measures life by what others do for him, he is apt to be disappointed; but if he measures life by what he does for others, there is no time for despair."
 -William Jennings Bryan,
Politician, statesman, and three-time Presidential nominee
 
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. . . . I get most joy in life out of music."
 -Albert Einstein,
Nobel laureate and international physicist
 
"The leading cause of death is being born."
 -Anonymous
 
"We all have to suffer. We all have things we want, which are taken away from us. It's all right. But - because we are living beings - there's something in each of us, something like the very heart of life condensed - and THAT should not be touched."
 -Ayn Rand,
Writer and philosopher,
in We the Living
 
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
 -Antoine de Saint-Exupery,
French aviator and writer
 
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
 -Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923),
French actress and writer
 
"Service is what life is all about."
 -Marion Wright Edelman (1939 - ),
American founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund and the first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi bar
 
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
 -W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965),
British writer, highest paid author in the world during the 1930's
 

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